Is that light at the end of the tunnel?

25 Oct 06

Howdy. I'm still alive. I think things will slowly start getting back to normal around here. I can't make any promises, but my wife got good news at the OB visit today. Everything is looking good and the risk is down. My personal stress level has dropped a lot. Maybe I can get some work done around here again.

It's not that I haven't done anything. There have been some significant security changes. Hopefully, you haven't noticed any of them. You might have noticed the lack of comment spam. We'll have to keep our fingers crossed that it continues to work that well.

I've been thinking about the site as well. Some things here work well. Others, not so much. I'm going to try to slowly implement some changes to see if we can't improve things. One thing I'm looking at is going to column updates three times a week as the norm. That way I can focus more on quality content. Without an active forum and a steady supply of new stories, the logs indicate that most people are checking here once a week or less. There's nothing wrong with that, but it means there's little harm to giving less frequent updates if there's more meat to them.

Another thing I've been playing with is starting a Talk Strategy wiki. There seems to be some interest in sharing knowledge about strategy and tactical games on a more in depth level. With a wiki you could just add your tip or strategy to the game page. By creating game pages we'd know what everyone is playing and get a feel for what they're thinking about it. Let me know what you think, both the merits of a wiki and how it might work.

There is some gaming news out there. It looks like the Supreme Commander beta will be starting soon. 3DGamers has some slots for subscribers. I imagine Fileplanet has the same. Also, you might have noticed some price drops in the TS Store. I was a bit surprised to see that the new Marvel action RPG is getting better reviews than the new Splinter Cell. I'm guessing it's just a factor of more reviews, but it's still unexpected. Speaking of surprises, I thought Railroads! would get better reviews. Who would have thought it would be a system hog?

Upcoming, I owe you some reviews and will give my take on the whole impending PS/Wii launch and holiday gaming season. Thanks for the patience.

Jason